Policy Positions
City digital inclusion leaders featured in special journal issue
Yesterday the Journal of Digital and Media Literacy published a special issue on “Digital Inclusion Policies & Programs of Local Governments”, featuring articles by municipal digital inclusion leaders from seven U.S. cities (all Trailblazers).I was invited by the...
read moreAnnouncing the Digital Inclusion Corps Pilot Project
NDIA is happy to report we received a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) supporting a pilot Digital Inclusion Corps. The project will demonstrate the value of having local digital inclusion corps members connected nationally to a supportive...
read moreAggregating Lifeline Broadband Subscribers FAQ
Overview The FCC's March 31, 2016 Order that modernized Lifeline to include broadband service included references to the FCC working with USAC (Universal Service Administrative Company) when implementing the National Verifier (an online platform that will verify...
read moreDigital Inclusion Recommendations to the U.S. Federal Government
Recognizing that federal support can substantially strengthen local local digital inclusion activities, we, the National Digital Inclusion Digital Inclusion Alliance, make the following recommendations to the U.S. federal government. NDIA calls for the federal...
read moreNDIA and Mobile Citizen Launch “Digital Inclusion Trailblazers”
Following is the full text of a press release issued today by NDIA and Mobile Citizen: NEWS RELEASE The National Digital Inclusion Alliance Launches Digital Inclusion Trailblazers Together with Mobile Citizen A Resource for Tracking Local Government Digital Inclusion...
read moreFCC names NDIA’s Siefer to Consumer Advisory Committee
The Federal Communications Commission has appointed NDIA Executive Director Angela Siefer to serve as a member of its 2016-18 Consumer Advisory Committee (CAC). The mission of the 29-member CAC is to "make recommendations to the Commission regarding consumer issues...
read moreNDIA Comments on a National Broadband Research Agenda
Below in text and attached as a PDF are NDIA's comments on a National Broadband Research Agenda. The Request for Comments was posted in the Federal Register on 9-9-2016 by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the National Science...
read moreDigital Equity Is the “What” and Digital Inclusion Is the “How”
The term “bridging the digital divide” comes with a natural assumption that there is one digital divide and it can be bridged. Digital inclusion practitioners working with disadvantaged populations understand acutely the many technological divides that exist. We also...
read moreNew Federal Reserve publication links digital inclusion and Community Reinvestment Act
The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas has just published Closing the Digital Divide, which the Bank's President calls "a toolkit for bankers seeking to bring digital opportunity to underserved, rural and tribal communities through access to high-speed broadband. Bank...
read moreNDIA Comments On HUD’s Proposed Rule Modernizing Consolidated Planning Process
Below are the comments of the National Digital Inclusion Alliance regarding HUD's proposed rule in Docket No. FR 5891-P-01, "Modernizing HUD's Consolidated Planning Process To Narrow the Digital Divide and Increase Resilience to Natural Hazards". Here is a PDF of...
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